Senior Safety Engineer
Hypersonica • london, england • Posted June 05, 2026
About the Role
Help Build Europe's Hypersonic Capability
What you'll do
- Lead a System Safety Program across Hypersonica’s portfolio of products and projects, ensuring hazards are identified early, risks are understood, and safety cases remain robust through system design, development, test, and operations.
- Own the safety case lifecycle end to end: hazard identification, risk assessment, FTA, FMEA/FMECA, and clear traceability from hazards to mitigations and evidence.
- Build and implement a lean, tailored safety approach that meets applicable aerospace and defence standards without unnecessarily slowing development.
- Own the production of Hypersonica’s safety procedure and embed it into how engineering and test actually run day to day.
- Lead design safety and trial safety, ensuring safety evidence is credible for readiness reviews and operations.
- Manage and challenge external safety support where required, pulling capabilit...